Conference news

Håkon Gulbrandsen, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, will speak at the closure at 15:30, Friday. The program is extended to 16:00.

During the conference dinner on Thursday 12th November, participants will be able to meet the two speakers at the conference closure: Ingebjørg Birkeland and Rickard Lalander. Birkeland is Policy Adviser at the Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Higher Education and Rickard Lalander chairs the Program Board of the Latin America program of the Research Council of Norway.

During the Norlarnet Conference and specially during the dinner on Thursday 12th participants will be able to meet Christina Hee Pedersen from Roslkilde University and Vibeke Andersson from Ålborg University. They will be pleased to introduce Nolan (the Nordic Latin American Research Network) and talk about their upcoming conference. The Conference will be held at the University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Business School in 2010, November 10-12. The title of the conference is: Society, Culture, and Nature in Latin America. New Political Tendencies. Read more here.